Alright everyone welcome back to Cody's lab! So a lot of you guys don't know this about me,
but I actually have something in common with the Baudelaire orphans, and that is an allergy to peppermint.
And I also don't like most artificial flavorings.
And as you can imagine that makes it rather difficult for me to find toothpaste. As such
I haven't actually brushed my teeth in over 12 years now.
Kind of a realization I came to a while back, so how is it that I'm able to keep my teeth so fabulous
without brushing them? The answer is of course
I make my own mouthwash.
So on the table here, I have everything I need to make my own unflavored mouthwash and prevent tooth decay.
So first of all I've got a 1 liter bottle
and to this
I'm going to add
Hydric acid up to about half of it. Now this is of course a universal solvent
and will be the carrier for all the active ingredients.
That's actually a bit much so I'm going to drink that down.
There we go.
Now in order to destroy acids in my mouth I need to make the solution alkaline, and to do that
I'm gonna add an alkali metal.
In this case
some potassium.
So let's cut this into little chunks
And drop them into the water.
This of course produces potassium hydroxide and hydrogen gas
and enough heat to ignite the hydrogen which burns away.
That's kind of cool. So now that that's in, I need something that will kill off most of the bacteria.
Before that I'm just going to use some of this
methylated spirits
This stuff does contain methanol, but as long as I'm not drinking large amounts of it I should be fine.
I'll just uh - it's not supposed to kill all the bacteria. Just you know knock down their populations a little bit
a little bit of potassium vapors in the air here.
Let's actually give this a good shake to mix everything.
Alrighty
Now this next ingredient is not strictly necessary,
but I'm going to be using it because my teeth have been turning a bit yellow. And that is hydrogen peroxide
Let's just add a little bit of concentrated hydrogen peroxide here, and this will help bleach my teeth a little bit.
It'll also aid in killing off bacteria. This stuff's pretty concentrated, so that's probably plenty.
Set that down.
And now I've revealed what is the most important ingredient.
And that is
some fluoride ions.
And for this I'm going to use some of this concentrated hydrofluoric acid.
Let's just reach in and grab a little bit of this.
Only need a few drops really.
Okay
Let's pack this back up.
And now I have my mouthwash. Now this stuff combined with proper flossing with floss which I've
washed the mint off of will help prevent tooth decay
And so far it's worked.
Foamy. All right, hope you enjoyed I'll see you next time